When it comes to accolades, Sandra Bullock is more comfortable with being voted "Most Likely to Brighten Your Day," by her Arlington, Va. high school class than she is with the title that MTV bestowed on her last year: "most desirable female." Bullock, one of PEOPLE's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1996, has never been comfortable with her glamorous image.
At 29, she still remembers those gawky teen years when, she said, the word "dog" was often used to describe her. If she were a meaner being, she might tell those folks to eat her exhaust. But with Sandra, whose earning power has zoomed from $500,000 for "Speed" to $11 million for "Speed 2," success speaks for itself.
Starring in those two thrillers cemented her reputation as an as action movie diva. Yet it was her role in 1996's "A Time to Kill," an adaptation of John Grisham's first novel, and "In Love in War," based on Ernest Hemingway�s World War II diaries, which established her as an actress to be reckoned with. Bullock will get the chance to exercise more of her formidable acting chops in the upcoming "Hope Floats," directed by Forest Whitaker, which chronicles the tangled life of a former beauty queen.
Not surprisingly, Bullock is one of the most popular actress on the Web. Whether it's due to her cyber-savvy projects (such as "The Net"), her reported expertise with things Webby or just her very downloadable image, Bullock is one of just a handful of stars who have sped ahead on both the Superhighway and Wilshire Boulevard with equal ease. Today, fan sites from Germany to Sweden and elsewhere chronicle her every hiccup.
This page last updated 1-25-99